Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

Pitzl, Marie-Luise

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“…Consequently, one question that is a pertinent issue for further research is when a particular (new and creative) use of a metaphor stops being considered misuse (cf. Pitzl, 2018) and becomes accepted in the wider community. Recently, there has been a discussion in the domains of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics about alternative models of "speakerhood" (Márquez Reiter & Martín Rojo, 2019) that to a greater extent reflect peoples' multilingual backgrounds (cf.…”

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Metaphor in education

Ahlgren

Golden

Magnusson

2021

MSW

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This special issue explores the use of metaphor in education from a multilingual perspective in two Scandinavian countries, Norway and Sweden. In this introduction, we include a brief overview of earlier research in the domain and identify common factors noteworthy to discuss in relation to the multilingual context, for instance, the notion of creativity and speaker legitimacy in a second language context. The issue includes six articles comprising multilingual school children, youth, university students, adult migrants, and indigenous minorities. Several of the articles focus on second language acquisition, use and assessment, while others deal more with social issues, including unequal power relations and prejudices that newcomers encounter in everyday life.

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Section: Concluding Remarks and Future Directionsmentioning

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Metaphor in education

Ahlgren

Golden

Magnusson

2021

MSW

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“…The multilingual workplace realities of Polish truckers towards the multilingual context of lingua franca interactions. Several ELF scholars recognize the importance of multilingualism in lingua franca practices and research (e.g., Jenkins 2015;Mortensen 2013Mortensen , 2017Pitzl 2018;Seidlhofer 2009); yet English remains the fundamental language. For instance, Jenkins (2015: 77) emphasizes that in lingua franca situations, English is "now conceived as one among many other languages, one resource among many, available but not necessarily used".…”

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The multilingual workplace realities of Polish truckers: A case study in the Netherlands

Dijkstra

Coler²,

Redeker

2020

Multilingua

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Although international truckers are essential to the European supply chain, we know little about how they deal with their frequent multilingual workplace interactions. This paper examines the effects of participants’ Individual Multilingual Repertoires (Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2016. World Englishes and creative idioms in English as a lingua franca. World Englishes 35(2). 293–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12196) on their behavior and attitude toward multilingual interactions. Five Polish truckers and six Dutch logistics professionals were observed and interviewed. An ethnographic case study approach allowed us to consider interactions from multiple perspectives. Findings from the study reveal that some, but not all, Polish truckers struggle to interact in the most common lingua francas in the Netherlands: English and German. We show that some of the Dutch logistics professionals have a low opinion of foreign drivers’ linguistic abilities, which impairs the potential to find shared multilingual resources, and ultimately to improve communication skills. Results of the study contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of multilingual interactions in the workplace. Practical suggestions for logistics professionals and future research are identified.

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“…They adopt diverse strategies to make communication succeed. I found subjects using strategies such as confirmation check, repetition, and clarification requests to manage possible communicative breakdown due to norm differences (cf., Kaur 2009; Pitzl 2010). Other resources such as gestures, setting, and objects also help them understand each other.…”

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Crossing borders, addressing diversity

Canagarajah

2016

Lang. Teach.

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This paper presents a story of applied linguistics from my personal vantage point as a multilingual scholar whose career began outside the centers of research and scholarship. The article explains the assumptions and practices characterizing the foundation of the discipline in modernist discourses, and delineates the changes resulting from globalization towards postmodern discourses that question positivistic inquiry and homogeneity. As applied linguistics evolves to address diversity as the norm, the article identifies the different schools that have gradually moved the field in that direction – e.g., variationist applied linguistics (VAL), critical applied linguistics (CAL), postmodern hybridity, and translingual practice. Through these movements, the field has also evolved fromlinguistics applied (LA)to a more theoretically plural and, currently, to a more agentive relationship with other disciplines. Rather than simply borrowing from other disciplines, applied linguists have begun to make their own contributions to those disciplines on language-related issues.

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Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca

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